Welcome


Ahoy Mateys! I be talking like a pirate because I use the scientific programming language R to solve environmental problems, and I want to get you hooked on data science.

Here are few highlights of research I do on this site.

Route ships around whale hotspots


Some commentary about Frame 2.

For more see EcoQuants.

tags: #decision-framework #connectivity #whales

Site offshore wind energy


tags: #renewable-energy #decision-framework #whales #birds

Calculate Ocean Health Index globally


The Ocean Health Index quantifies sustainable use of the oceans globally.

Click on a country to freeze the flower plot to that country in the upper right and explore the country goal scores in the flower plot.

tags: #decision-framework #whales #birds

Predict whale & dolphin densities based on habitat


Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico | Duke MGEL

Citation: Roberts JJ, Best BD, Mannocci L, Fujioka E, Halpin PN, Palka DL, Garrison LP, Mullin KD, Cole TVN, Khan CB, McLellan WM, Pabst DA, Lockhart GG (2016) Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports 6: 22615. doi: 10.1038/srep22615. (Download)

tags: #sdg14 #decision-framework #whales #birds

Report on UN SDG14 Life in the Sea


The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 14 Life in the Sea

tags: #sdg14 #decision-framework #whales #birds

Monitor ship speeds to avoid whale strikes


Ship Cards speeding through whale strike advisories

tags: #reporting #whales #shipping

Resources


Here are a couple of the tools I use in R to create apps and generate reports.

Rmarkdown reports

Shiny applications